And why shouldn’t Russia extract a high price for this terrorism? We did in 2001. (Too bad we didn’t finish the job.)
Sounds like Russia has accomplished more in weeks than Obama has in his whole term.
They should.
Russia has witnessed some of the world's most horrific acts of terrorism. A series of apartment bombings in 1999, blamed on Chechen separatists, set off a nationwide panic and preceded a second major war in Chechnya. Islamic extremists based in the north Caucasus have also staged acts of terrorism in Moscow.
In August 2004, female suicide bombers brought down two Russian domestic passenger planes, killing 90 people. But if a bomb brought down the Russian jetliner that crashed in Egypt on Saturday, it would be the biggest terror incident targeting Russians outside their country.
July 1994: Terrorists seize a helicopter and take hostages in the southern city of Mineralnye Vody. During a rescue operation, 19 people are wounded and four are killed. June 1995: Separatists led by Chechen commander Shamil Basayev capture several buildings in the southern city of Budyonnovsk; 129 people are killed, 415 wounded.
January 1996: A group of Chechen militants led by Salman Raduyev capture a hospital in Kizlyar, in the southern republic of Dagestan; hostages are taken to the village of Pervomayskoye. A total of 78 people are killed and several hundred are wounded in the hostage-taking and fighting.
June-July 1996: Explosions on public transportation in Moscow kill and injure dozens.
June 1997: An explosion on a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg kills five people.
October 1998: Three British engineers are kidnapped and killed in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
March 1999: An explosion at a market in Vladikavkaz, southern Russia, kills 64 people.
September 1999: A series of apartment blocks are bombed in the cities of Moscow, Bunaiksk and Volgodonsk, killing around 300 people and setting off a national panic.
August 2000: Explosion in the underpass at Moscow’s Pushkin square kills 13 people and wounds dozens more. March 2001: A series of car bomb attacks in southern Russia kills 21 people and wounds 140.
October 2002: Around 800 spectators, actors and musicians are held hostage at a theater in Moscow. During the siege, all the terrorists are killed and 130 hostages die. December 2002: A government building in Grozny is hit by a suicide bomber, killing 71 people and wounding several hundred.
May 2003: A truck bomb is set off in the village of Znamenskoye in Chechnya, killing 52.
July 2003: Suicide bombers attack a music festival in Moscow, killing 16 people and wounding 59.
February 2004: An explosion in the Moscow subway kills 40 people and wounds 134.
June 2004: Chechen militants attack government buildings in Nazran, Ingushetia, killing 98 people. August 2004: Two female suicide bombers board domestic flights and blow themselves up in midair, killing 90 people.
September 2004: Terrorists capture a school in Beslan, North Ossetiya. A total of around 330 people are killed.
October 2005: An attack on Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkariya, kills 35 law enforcement officers and 12 civilians.
March 2010: An explosion in Moscow metro stations kills 40 and wounds 90.
January 2011: A suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport kills 37 and wounds 172.
May 2012: An attack involving a suicide car bomb in Makhachkala, Dagestan, kills 13 and wounds 100.
October 2013: A female suicide bomber detonates on a bus, killing seven.
December 2014: An attack by insurgents in the capital of Chechnya kills 14 policemen and 1 civilian. A total of 11 insurgents are killed.